A demining expert checks a road with a metal detector in Juba, southern Sudan, 9 August 2005 ...

Nicholas “Fink” Haysom, who has died aged 73, was the chief legal and constitutional adviser to Nelson Mandela during his South African presidency and later, on behalf of the UN, brought his ...

The increasingly speculative UN Commission on Human Rights has once again issued a report about Uganda’s involvement in the ...

Tributes are pouring in from across the world for South African anti-apartheid activist, human rights campaigner, and ...

Around the world, freedom is taking a beating. Jamie Fly is CEO of Freedom House. Yana Gorokhovskaia is research director for ...

Nicholas Haysom, a white South African anti-apartheid activist who was tapped by prisoner-turned-president Nelson Mandela to ...

In happier times, Mohamed Ahmed grows sorghum, lentils and beans on three feddans of land in Gezira state. But for more than a year, no irrigation water has reached the 1.2 hectares (3 acres) he ...

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Thursday morning announced the death of its chief, Nicholas Haysom, describing him as a principled leader who dedicated his life to peace and ...

Sudan’s Gezira irrigation scheme spans nearly 890,000 hectares (2.2 million acres), pumping water from the Nile to farmers through a network of canals fed by the Sennar Dam.

"We will be there to cooperate, to collaborate, to build a new Middle East," Israeli Consul General Ofir Akunis told Newsweek ...

The so-called UN Commission on Human Rights has once again issued a speculative report about Uganda’s involvement in the South Sudan conflict. The report makes serious allegations against the Uganda ...

A successful response must include stronger coordination among democracies, reformed democracy assistance, and more strategic engagement with young people around the world.